| Name | Alexander Ilyich Klyachin |
| Date of birth (age) | May 18, 1967 (now 54) |
| Place of Birth | Moscow, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russian |
| Marital status (children) | married, two children |
| Field of activity | development, investment |
| Condition, $ | 1.6 billion (2020) |
The name of Alexander Klyachin appeared on the pages of Forbes magazine in 2014. Now the billionaire occupies a leading position among Moscow developers and rentiers. Residents of the capital and foreign tourists admire the chic of the hotels he built, and the oligarch himself is famous for his charitable activities. So who is he, the businessman who created the largest hotel chain in Russia, Azimut, and the KR Properties company?
Education
The fact that Alexander was an extraordinary person or that his parents had some privileges can be judged by Klyachin’s higher education. After graduating from Moscow school in 1985, the young man became a student at one of the most prestigious universities in the USSR - Moscow State University. Lomonosov. Unlike most Russian billionaires who wanted to become economists or show off their mathematical abilities, Alexander Ilyich gave preference to the Faculty of Geography.
Obtaining knowledge at the university for the future billionaire was diluted by military service in the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1991, the certified geographer decided to continue his education in the United States, where he studied at the University of Oregon until 1993, honing his skills in geography.
From car resale to the “king of real estate near Moscow”
Alexander Klyachin began by reselling Soviet cars in Central Asia. This is how he earned his first capital. Then, logically, I turned my attention to the cost of land. Then, in the 1990s, in Russia it was paradoxically low. Yes, this was already noted by that time by Moscow investors who were busy buying up land. But in the Moscow region no one has thought of this yet. Entrepreneur Klyachin was the first to take a more serious view of the prospects of these hectares, counting on implementing various development projects here in the future.
What kind of entrepreneurial flair this man has is evidenced by the fact that within ten years the media will assign him a kind of status - “king of real estate near Moscow.” By that time, his investment portfolio will already have 13,000 hectares. And he himself will begin to acquire not just bare land, but with objects - sites of abandoned industrial enterprises.
Career and business of Alexander Klyachin
Perhaps, even as a student, Alexander Ilyich realized the futility of his chosen specialty, when perestroika and the collapse of the Soviet Union opened up a wide field for private entrepreneurship. Perhaps, in the future, a thorough knowledge of the continents and the peoples living on them did not play a significant role in the career of the aspiring businessman, but two higher education diplomas received from prestigious universities did their job.
Alexander Klyachin began his career in 1993 as a researcher at a state research institute dealing with issues of labor and social life of society. However, a year later, Alexander Ilyich leaves the civil service and goes into the world of private business.
In 1993, it was registered in Moscow, the founders of which were Alexander Klyachin and Sergey Mikheev.
History is silent about the origin of the start-up capital of entrepreneurs, but soon this enterprise began to grow rapidly due to investments. The assessment of a society that did not recognize the laws of business was of little interest to Alexander Ilyich. Its main weapon was M&A, which implied the buyout or takeover of financially weak enterprises.
Organization of business spaces according to the European model
One of these properties purchased by Klyachin is the site of the former Red Rose silk factory in the Khamovnichesky district of Moscow. Along with the acquisition, the businessman begins to implement the idea of transferring the former industrial facility into the status of the first business district in Russia - a special space for business, created according to the European model in the loft style.
The entrepreneur conveys the idea to the capital’s officials, citing as an example successful projects for the redevelopment of industrial zones that have already been implemented in Europe.
It is worth noting that officials managed to see the rational core in Klyachin’s initiative. And in 2003, with the support of the capital’s leadership, the architectural studio of Sergei Kiselev is developing a draft urban planning concept for reorganizing the territory of the future quarter.
At the same time, the businessman immediately voiced a very important condition to the designers: all historical buildings of the former factory, which for objective reasons can be preserved, must be preserved. Moreover, during the reconstruction of the premises they were restored so that they regained their original appearance. It must be said that such an approach was very rare for Moscow at the beginning of the 2000s and became a striking example of the careful preservation of the buildings of the old capital. And they, by the way, were not even cultural heritage monuments.
Net worth of Alexander Klyachin
According to Forbes magazine, Alexander Klyachin crossed the billion-dollar mark in 2022, and judging by his activity, the businessman may soon compete with the top ten wealthiest businessmen in Russia.
An entrepreneur's capital is difficult to calculate, since his assets are constantly in circulation.
Based on the dynamics of changes in the billionaire’s fortune, one can imagine how his business has developed recently (years - $, billion / place in the ranking of the 200 richest Russians):
- 2014 – 0,75/138;
- 2015 – 0,95/94;
- 2016 – 0,7/120;
- 2017 – 1,3/71;
- 2018 – 1,5/66;
- 2019 – 1,7/56;
- 2020 – 1,6/60.
The media is silent about the billionaire’s private property, as well as about his past life. However, the owner of the largest development company probably has a place to live and relax, but as a shareholder of a transport company, you shouldn’t think too much about ways to move around the world.
Labor activity
Since 1993, he has been working in the field of financial management, forming an investment portfolio in the capital and Moscow region real estate market.
In 2001, he founded the development company KR Properties, which became the founder of the loft direction of the Moscow real estate market, which continues to hold a leading position in this segment. Among the implemented projects are the Red Rose business district, the Rassvet loft quarter, and a complex of buildings at the Danilovskaya Manufactory.
KR Properties, part of Klyachin’s Gleden Invest Group, owns more than 300,000 sq. m of class A and B offices.
2003 – Alexander Klyachin founded Azimut Hotels Company, the first Russian hotel brand to appear in Europe.
2021 - the Azimut Hotels chain operates more than 60 hotels in Russia, Austria, Israel and Germany with a total capacity of over 10,000 rooms.
2016 - Alexander Klyachin’s Azimut Hotels chain manages hotels in the Rosa Khutor ski resort
2012 - Alexander Ilyich acquired the capital’s Metropol Hotel for 8.9 billion rubles.
2014 – A. Klyachin entered the Top 30 largest rentiers in Russia according to Forbes Russia.
2018 – Alexander Klyachin becomes the owner of the capital’s Karat processed cheese factory.
2019 - turkey production under the “Indyushkin” brand was launched in Bashkiria.
2019 - the first network hostel, Strawberry Duck, opened its doors. In 2020, a second branch will open in Moscow.
2020 - Alexander Klyachin acquires the Russian Railways-Health chain, which includes 19 sanatoriums in various regions of the country.
2021 - invests 10 billion rubles for construction in Tolyatti.
2021 - an agreement was signed with the Governor of Kuzbass Sergei Tsivilev and the head of Gleden Invest Alexander Klyachin for the construction of a new tourism cluster in the area of the Sheregesh resort.
The private life of Alexander Klyachin
The personal life of Alexander Klyachin is also hidden from the general public, like many pages of his biography. The billionaire is married, and, according to very vague information, his wife is Anna Goldin, vice president of AFK Sistema. As far as we know, the couple raised two children. The eldest son Anthony was born in 1996, and 5 years later another boy joined the family - Andy.
Among the businessman’s charitable activities, mention should be made of his participation in the work of the Khamovniki charitable foundation, which is engaged in scientific research in the social and economic sphere.
Alexander Klyachin spares no expense in holding cultural events and takes care of the younger generation left without parents.
Like echoes of the billionaire’s geographical past, his words about his passion for reading intellectual detective stories sound. Among his favorite writers are Akunin and Pelevin. Alexander Ilyich devotes his free time, which, as always, is in short supply, to family, hunting, diving, snowboarding and sports motorcycles.
Notes
- https://www.forbes.ru/milliardery/342943-opublikovan-reyting-200-bogateyshih-biznesmenov-rossii-2017-goda
- https://www.rospres.com/finance/20991/
- https://dir.alumni57.ru/students/?year=1984
- https://versia.ru/kolxoznyj-rejder-aleksandr-klyachin-boretsya-za-licenziyu-na-otkrytie-pervogo-igornogo-zavedeniya-na-kipre
- https://www.moscow-post.com/economics/kljachin_bjet_kopytami22679/
- https://www.sovsekretno.ru/articles/id/5665/
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- https://crimelist.ru/archives/53669-raznyie-novosti
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- https://ru.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Klyachin%2C_Alexander_Ilyich&type=revision&diff=115032073&oldid=112948648
Links
- Alexander Ilyich Klyachin in Cyclopedia
- Alexander Klyachin. Forbes.
- https://newizv.ru/article/general/29-04-2021/vse-vokrug-sovhoznoe-kak-aleksandr-klyachin-stal-lendlodom
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Large purchases
In 2012, as a result of an auction, he became the owner of the famous Moscow Metropol Hotel; to win, it took one step from the lot bid: the deal was closed for 8.874 billion rubles, while the starting price was 8.7 billion rubles. The Metropol Hotel has the status of a cultural heritage site and has existed since 1905.
In 2013, as a result of a transaction with Viktor Rashnikov, the Renaissance Moscow Olympic Hotel was purchased; the transaction amount was $170 million.
In 2014, Alexander Klyachin acquired 100% of the shares of OJSC Hotel Belgrade. Currently, the hotel is under reconstruction and is preparing to welcome guests.
In 2016, Klyachin bought a 25% stake in Habidatum International. The project has existed since 2013. The company was able to develop a platform for collecting and processing information generated by residents of large cities in an automatic or semi-automatic mode, for example, mobile phone signals (movements, calls, use of special functions), geolocation data, information from personal sensors (electronic maps, etc.) and data from social networks .
